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[Cheese]

Less monsters, but they do more damage.

The less monsters thing is important, since you get less total loot.

Loot? As in feathers and stuff?

[Mephisto]

Egyptland progress update:



A few more people joined in on the fun. I know it doesn't look like much, but you can see more now than you could yesterday.

Somehow, my porter got disassociated with the receiver, so I had to go fix that. Funny. In any game not labeled "Skylands," blowing 36 diamonds on a porter would make me cringe.

[Evilgrim]

I know I'm missing something really stupid now..
But minecraft.exe doesn't want to work for me..

      Bad video card drivers!     
      -----------------------     

Minecraft was unable to start because it failed to find an accelerated OpenGL mode.
This can usually be fixed by updating the video card drivers.

There's a lot more, but it mostly consists of "WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS".
Does anyone know what I should do?

[Maldevious]

As someone who is definitely intrigued by this game, can someone give me a quick pitch as to what it is like and why it's worth downloading (buying?)?

[Simmura McCrea]

It's temporarily free due to the server dying. Go grab it and try it for yourself, but you'll have to pay to keep playing Alpha once the server gets fixed.

[Spade]

I'm trying out the free weekend.  It's fun.

But does anyone have the recipes? The wiki's down I think.

[0x517A5D]

As someone who is definitely intrigued by this game, can someone give me a quick pitch as to what it is like and why it's worth downloading (buying?)?

My pitch: you're a DF player, it almost certainly follows that you like sandbox games.  Minecraft is a rapidly maturing sandboxer oriented toward constructions.  It doesn't have the depth of interactions between objects that DF has, or the user extensibility, but for a pure building/digging game it's pretty close to perfect.

This is the video recently linked on Notch's blog.  Drool over these structures, then tell yourself, yes I can make something just as impressive.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaMTedT6P0I&fmt=22

[ToonyMan]

GameFAQ's question of the day?

Have you played Minecraft yet?

Wow, each day a major website mentions Minecraft.  That's pretty cool.

[ToonyMan]

Nobody likes anybody, it's all cool.

[Spade]

Does anyone know what drops string? I can't find any. 

[warhammer651]

Does anyone know what drops string? I can't find any. 

Spiders drop string.
Attack during night at your own risk

[Spade]

So I can't have my sissy peaceful mode on? 

[0x517A5D]

I found something interesting.  I noticed a deep area of ocean right by a piece of flat shore.  I checked it out — it was very deep.

I dropped a cassion around the deep section using gravel, and used buckets to clear out the top layer of ocean inside it.  (Later I thought of just filling in the top layer with dirt, then digging it out again.)

After the water drained away, I used a gravel elevator to drop in safely.  It turned out to be a cave entrance.  A very nice cave, too.  Deep, many intertwining branches, and a monster generator.

Anyone seen something similar?

Anyone come across this from the other direction, like you're exploring and run into an area just flooded with running water?

[Ivefan]

It turned out to be a cave entrance.  A very nice cave, too.  Deep, many intertwining branches, and a monster generator.

Minecraft; Terror from the deep

Sounds like a rather interesting feature.

[C4lv1n]

Hey guys (or whoever I'm supposed to ask), now may not be the best time, but can I give the server IP to a guy I know(irl)?

I've got his word that he won't screw with people's stuff, and he's generally a good person. He also plays DF, if that's a deciding factor.